5 Amendments of Pablo ZALBA BIDEGAIN related to 2014/2210(INI)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that family businesses demonstrate a high degree of social responsibility towards their staff and that they, manage resources actively and responsibly, and generally take a more sustainable and longer-term approach to the economic future of the business (by acting as ‘honourable businessmen’) than non- family businesses and thus make an important contribution to Europe’s competitiveness and create and maintain jobs;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and especially the Member States therefore to improve the legal framework for the transfer of family businesses andvia a one-stop-shop system, and to create special financing instruments for transfers and, thus preventing liquidity shortages so as to ensure the survival of family businesses and prevent distress sales; calls, furthermore, for the managers of family businesses to be given special training on inheritance, property and good governance;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to define the term ‘family business’ at European level and regularly to commission studies that analyse the importance of ownership for the success and survival of a business and highlight the specific challenges facing family businesses; calls on the Commission also to collect enough datadata, on the basis of the definition of ‘family business’, on family businesses in the various Member States both to allow a comparison of the situation of family businesses and to promote exchanges of examples of good practices;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to establish, internally, a high-level group to lay the foundations for a permanent working group internally that specifically addresses the needs and characteristics of family businesses, regularly reports to Parliament and the Member States and acts as a contact at European level for family business for specific issues particularly relating to European legislation;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls onUrges the Commission to draw up a communication analysing the role of family businesses with a view to boosting the competitiveness of the EU’s economy by 2020, and to produce a road map listing the measures likely to strengthen the economic environment and development of family businesses in the EU;